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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C Problem?
Message-ID: <248@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 17:30:20 GMT
References: <44100006@hcx2>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Organization: The College on the Other Side of US Route 1
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In article <44100006@hcx2> daver@hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
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|The following dumb, little program is compiled with Turbo-C 1.0, running under
|MS-DOS 3.2.  Shortly after starting up, the C compiler goes berserk.  The
|screen flashes in reverse video and the operating system reboots itself.
|In a larger example, the auto-reboot does not take place, but the C compiler
|hangs up, the recommended "control-break to quit" has no effect, and I have
|to reboot the system anyway.  What is going on?  Is this a C compiler
|problem?  Would there be any difference in version 1.5?
|
|#define R 41
|#define C 480
|main()
|{
|   struct
|   {
|      unsigned a:1;
|   } b[R][C];
|
|   int i, j;
|     for (i=0; i<R; ++i)
|      for (j=0; j<C; ++j)
|      {
|         b[i][j].a = 0;
|      }
|}


In version 1.5, your program compiles without error and, on execution,
does nothing.

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